The best managers of AI agents may be people who have already managed humans, one AI founder said.

Ivan Burazin, the cofounder and CEO of New York-based AI firm Daytona, has a team of about 30 people across teams in the US and Europe. He told Business Insider that in recent months, he’s pushed his staff to build more AI agents; his 16 engineers each run an average of five agents, and no one at the company writes code anymore.

That’s brought one thing to light for him: Staff who have managed others are way better at prompting AI agents to get exactly what they want than those with no people-management experience.

“We’ve found that people who…